Actually he wanted the info added to your .profile not on the command line (or at least that's how I read it since it's not working in the script but it is on the command line; you do the troubleshooting from where it doesn't seem to be working ).

The only time I've experienced a problem is if something earlier doesn't run and .profile bails but I can't be sure that wasn't a Red Hat feature (so many systems ). Are the other items working? The PATH modified and NDMAPICFG set? If you move the set command to the top of .profile, does it work?

Carl

Edit: Oh, and if you source your .profile does it work?

Hay Carl, I think your on to something....
yes - the source did work.
yes - my path and ndmapicfg and "stty erase" does work

no - moving "set -o vi" to the top (above stty erase ^H) doesn't work
no - placing those command in the .profile did not help.

Grrr... this seems to easy to not work.

jimmy, you need to modify your .profile file as I indicated. Then you need to logon. Then you need to post the output from those commands. No, those lines will not solve anything. But if you would post the output they produce when you logon, we can probably figure out what is happening.

Here's the output from the commands in the .profile ....
Please see note at bottom.

Last login: Thu Dec 28 08:07:29 from 192.168.0.214
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
jcusic 7813 7807 0 14:17:29 pts/2 0:00 ps -f
jcusic 7807 7804 1 14:17:24 pts/2 0:00 -ksh
Current option settings
allexport off
bgnice on
emacs off
errexit off
gmacs off
ignoreeof off
interactive on
keyword off
markdirs off
monitor on
noexec off
noclobber off
noglob off
nolog off
notify off
nounset off
privileged off
restricted off
trackall off
verbose off
vi on
viraw off
xtrace off
Current option settings
allexport off
bgnice on
emacs off
errexit off
gmacs off
ignoreeof off
interactive on
keyword off
markdirs off
monitor on
noexec off
noclobber off
noglob off
nolog off
notify off
nounset off
privileged off
restricted off
trackall off
verbose off
vi on
viraw off
xtrace off
$ -fs
set -o vi
set -o
ksh: -fs: not found
$ set -o vi
$ set -o
Current option settings
allexport off
bgnice on
emacs off
errexit off
gmacs off
ignoreeof off
interactive on
keyword off
markdirs off
monitor on
noexec off
noclobber off
noglob off
nolog off
notify off
nounset off
privileged off
restricted off
trackall off
verbose off
vi on
viraw off
xtrace off

Grrr... logon is a generic term which I didn't stop to think about. When I telnet in... It works at expected! But I don't use telnet. I use Hummingbird to make a xwindows connection. Here's the command used to make that connection.
/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -bg black -fg yellow -sb -title SUN01--172.16.25.12-- -geo 110x30
When I login using this method I don't get any output from those commands and the set -o vi doesn't work till entered from the command line.

The xterm man page says:

Thanks Perderabo !!! That did it. No wonder I couldn't figure it out. I was looking in the wrong place all the time... New xterm line is...
/usr/openwin/bin/xterm -ls -bg black -fg yellow -sb -title SUN01--172.16.25.12-- -geo 110x30